Steven J. Reid, The Early Life of James VI

wider precinct, whose content and extent is richly evidenced in the cartularies.Finally, errors in the reconstruction drawingsmissing crossing tower, absence of clerestory, absence of windows in the sacristydevalue what is otherwise beautiful work.All told, despite these flaws, this is a hugely valuable publication.Not only does it throw the inner workings of life in one of Scotland's greatest monasteries into brilliant illumination, it also places Arbroath centrally in the nation's history.Overall, it reminds us that there is a wealth of dataabout people great and small, places of local as well as national significance, and practices sacred and profane, about economies at local level through north-eastern Scotland, peasant and burgess society and the nobles' attitudes towards them, and the changing conditions of life and death through times of war, famine and pestilenceyet to be culled from our monastic records

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